The Brussels Post, 1978-09-20, Page 38SPERRY+NEIN HOLLAND
Kongskilde Turnco
- Westeel Rosco grain Bins
— McKee Corn cribs
Geo. White
Eastern Farm Machinery
Tractors EpieurrmTractors
Horst Wagons Martin's Bale Racks
SALES & SERVICE
CORN DRYING
• • • Two Dump Pits Available
One-hydraulic dumper
One-hopper wagon
FAST SERVICE
HURON 78
See us at the
Plowing Match September 26 - 30, 1978
HURON COUNTY
SNEL I FEED &
Le SUPPLIES LTD
R.R. 3, Blyth, Ontario at Westfield Phone 523-9501
cutter for the winter roads, a
fanning mill for cleaning
seed grain, a set of harrows,
cook stove, set of draining
tools, table lamp, saddle,
scotch collars, suit of clothes,
purebred ram, steel mold
board plow, carton of sheep
tick destroyer, a melodion, a•
pump, a buggy, a straw
aitter, _chest . of drawers,
stable lantern, pair of boots.
A report in the Canadian
Farmer of November 15,
1866, goes on to say:
"A novel and a very
agreeable feature of this
plowing competition was a
conversatione in the evening
in St. Lawrence Hall, Re-
fteshments were served and
a goodly company including
a sprinkling of ladies, partook.
ci the social repast and spent.
a very agreeable evening in
witnessing the presenatation
of prizes to winning com-
petitors and listening to
addresses of ' several
speakers and the sweet
strains of Music. The proce-
edings ended wih the
National Anthem by the
splendid' band of the 17th
regiment."
Full Circle Steel Hay Press.
COME AND SEE OUR DISPLAY
at the International Plowing Match
RAISED WEANER DECK
Size: 4' x 8' Height 48" Sfd. Deck is 18" from
floor. Frame: 1" sq. tubing 3/8" rod spacing,
2" o.c. and 3/8" perforated metal flooring.
Full front feeder.
GESTATION FREE STALL
Size: Length — 7' Width — 22' - 26"
adjustable. Frame: 1" pipe, 1/2 " rod. Front
and rear gate. Bottom water pipe.
FARROWING CRATE
Size: Lenth — 7'3", Width — 22", Height —
40", Frame: 1" pipe. Front Feeder, Front and
Rear Door. Adjustable bumper bar or bumper
door.
COOLER FANS
Wholesale & Retail, Air bags available in all
sizes.
WEANER DECK
Size: 4' x 4' Height 24". Frame: 1" sq.
tubing, 3/8" rod spacing 2" o.c. and 3/8
perforated metal flooring. Full front feeder.
GESTATION TIE STALL
Size: Length — 5'1", Width — 22" - 26"
adjftstable. Frame: 1" pipe, 1/2 " rod. Bottom
water pipe.
H GERRITS BARN EQUIPMENT LTD•
Specializing in Hog and Dairy Equipment
.R. 5 Clinton Ontario NOM 110 Phone 482-7296
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September 26 - 301 1978
HURON COUNTY
6 THE PLOWING MATCH SUPPLEMENT
1866 match prizes
were cutter, ,.harroiN.
A hundred years ago a
provincial plowing match
was held on Oct. 31, 1866, on
a farm belonging to George
Cooper, close. to what was
then known as Davenport
Station on the Northern Rail-
''way, about five miles from
the City of Toronto.
It was sponsored by the
Board of the Provincial Exhi-
bition held in Toronto in.
September of that same year.
The match was open to the
whole pro,,ince. There were
fiveclasses: Open to all with.
entry fee $6; open to all who
had not taken a first or
second prize during the last
five years — fee $5; open to
those using cast-iron beam
plows — fee $4; open to boys
under 18 years of age that
open to boys who had never
had not won a first prize in
any former match — fee $2;
0 uwitoirZ.on i!ig,,Hal
logua and prlort.
fatiguing the homer' much Inca than the half circle machines Write for min,
an ex tin
circle machine that • th in the horauc walk round a full circle contItitt•
reely large teed opening, rendering feeding mow and °muting rapid
• '
Manufactured by competed in a plowing match
— fee $1.
For ..--three plows started
at a given signal at 11:15
am., and with the exception
of three or four, finished at
3:15 p.m. The field. consisted
of 30 'acres of sod mostly of
light, gravelly soil. A quarter
of an acre was assigned to
each competitor. The time
allowed was 14 hours per
are. Each was permitted to
use an assistant to set the
stakes.
Prizes consisted of cash
and goods such ast - Silver
mounted team harness, a
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